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Last Updated : Aug 05 2013 | 3:30 PM IST

Reuters Market Eye - The BSE Sensex is up 0.1 percent and the broader Nifty higher 0.09 percent. Consumer goods shares gain on value buying: ITC Ltd is up 1 percent, while Hindustan Unilever Ltd gains 0.9 percent. The BSE FMCG index fell 10.2 percent in the last two weeks.

Financial Technologies (India) Ltd gains 27.5 percent in volatile trading after slumping 73 percent over the previous two sessions.

However, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd down 17.7 percent after earlier hitting its lowest level in nearly eight years, after its April-June earnings declined 49 percent from a year earlier.

(Reporting by Abhishek Vishnoi)

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First Published: Aug 05 2013 | 3:14 PM IST

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